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Seven Young Men Drowned in
| Boston Harbor.
Seven young men were drowned early in
the morning in the harbor of Boston, Mass.,
Dnly about two miles from shore. About
8:30 A. Meight young fellows, none of whom
was familiar with the management of a
Bailboat, although ono was part owner of tha
catrigged yacht 4n which they embarked,
started for a day's sail and fishing. The wind
view ii cau irum cue west uil iiigut aua ine |
Bea was rough. Off Thompson's Island the
boat was capsized. Several of them clung
to the overturned boat for au htfur or
more, and finally Incoming exhausted,
they slipped off and wero drowned,
one by one, Walter Quinlan being
saved. The names of the drowned
were: James H. Mitchell, Joseph Tufts,
Edgar Maloney, Thomas Troy, all of South
Boston; Albert Lombard, of the West End;
John Sullivan and Lawrence McTarnon, of
Charlestown. The overturned boat *as seen
by the night watchman at Moon Island, and
two young men named John and Edward
Clark pulied out to tha seen? of tlio disaster.
and at'the risk of their own lives finally succeeded
in petting young Quintan into their
boat and landing him in au exhausted and
half-drowned condition. John Clark is a
well-known athlets and oarsman, aud has on j
other occasions sayed people from drowning. |
There does not apj>ear to have bean any
liquor on the yacht, and the accident was
due to a lack of knowledge how to handle
the craft in rough water.
The Fight Cost 140 Lives.
r Toplitza is the name of the Bulgarian village
which was the sceno of the recent Ar ^aut
assault. It seems that the marauders
held possession of the place for seven hours,
after which the fugitives from the village
and the country people musterod in force I
and attacked them.
There was heavy fighting,and the Arnauts
were forced to withdraw, and finally fled I
across the frontier, pursued by the outrage! j
villagers. It is reported that iu the fighting j
whica followed the capture of the village
and accompanied the pursuit of the Arnauts |
iuv oi too lauer were Kuiea, wane ine Servians
lost forty killed. BlooJy reprisals are
{eared.
Killed Each Other With Knives.
Two boys, Frank Holloway and James
"Watkins, while returning from church near |
Beltou, in Anderson County, S. C., quarreled.
They went from words to blows, and
finally drew their pocket-knives an l began i
slashiug at each other. Hollo way receive! |
a terrible cash in the throat, nnon which he
rushed at watkins and plunged his knife into
his breast, llie point of the small blade
just reached the heart and death was instantaneous.
Watkins aud his deal antagonist
were found together in the road. The
wound of the former was fatal. They were
about sixteen years old.
! Nooses for Three Murderers.
Three colored meo.Tom Mills, Fletcher Hoidan
and Henrv Ho'doii- werahanowd .if. T.in.
den, Texas, for the confessed murder and robbery
of James McGregor, a white man, at
Atlanta,Texas, on the 7th. of last December.
McGregor had just settled in Cass County,
and let people know ho had money. He
drank freely with the throe colored men,and
they enticed him to the edge of ti?3 town,
whore Tom Mills broke his head with a car
coupling.
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A AVomcn in the Lead.
A young woman has carried off the highest
honors at the Jitne examination at Cambridge
(England) University. The winner of this
distinction is Miss Phillipa Fawcett, who is
Ibracketed as the superior of the male senior
l^rrangler in the mathematical class. Miss
W Fawcett, who is twenty-two years of age, is
r a daughter of the late Professor Fawcett.
Two other young women, Miss Field and Miss
Leare, were also among the wranglers.
A Storm-Swept Valley.
News from the valley of the Capon, in the
aasteru nart of Hamnshire Conntr IV Vn
. says the country has been inundated by a
Storm which has washed away much of the
soil of the valley farms, destroyed crop3 and
a large amount of property. This valley
was devastated one year ago, and the loss of
two crops in succession will result in destitution
to many.
: Four People Killed in Costa Rica.
"While a religions procession, held in celebration
of Corpus Christi, was passing
through Central Park, San Jose, Costa
Rica, the iron railing bordering the western
promenade gave way, falling on a crowd of
people assembled to witness the spectacle.
Four persons were killed and a great many
others seriously injured.
Burglars Burn Seventeen Stores.
Burglars blew open a safe in Brown's Bank,
at Chatsworth, I1L, at 3 o'clock in the moraine.
The buildinjrcauzht fire aud seventeen
store buildings, comprising the main block,
were burned. A fireman named Prather was
badly hurt. The bank vaults contained
$15,000. The total loss is $'JQ,000.
MURDEROUS ROBBERS.
Two Men Killed and About $10,000
| Stolen in Arkansas.
At an early hour in the morning the
north-1, oun 1 passenger train on the Cotton
Belt route was robbed by masked men at a
point between Camden, Ark., and Texarkana.
Texas. Two men wero killed and
about $10,000 secured.
The train was running at the usual rate of
^ peed. when the engine hit a pile of rocks and
^^Tmbers, which had been placed on the track.
"The collision threw the engine over a bank.
The engineer was crushed by the fall.
Tfre giomcnt the train cam* 3 stop three
Srtour armed men ru>h ?J out frorii a r.\ine
thicket in which they hud been ambushed,
and, approaching the express oar,
began climbing into it. Messenger Nesbitt,
who had suspected dauger when
the wreck occurrcd, made a bravo defense.
He shot at the intruiers and is believed
to have wounded one or two of them.
He was, however, speedily overcome, the
robbers answering his fire with a regular
fus lade. He was wounded dangerously, and
it was believed ho could not survive.
The car was literally sacked. The loss will
possibly reach $10,000.
A tramp stealing a ride on the mail
car was killed. The Sheriff and posse went
at once to the scene. No passengers or mail
were robbed.
A LASSOJ3UEL,
Two Mexican Cowboys Fight to tlio
Dentil.
A most remarkable duel took placo near
Moore station, Texas. The participants were
naiTBowi and WamauDa Bass, twoMex
ican cowboys. The young men had a quarrel
over some trivial matter and one
of them challenged the other to
fight a duel. Both are expert manipulators
of the lasso, and after considering the
matter of weapons to be used the one to
whom the challenge was made chose the lasso,
and it was agreed between them that the
battle was to be to tho death.
The spot chosen was about one mile from
"the station, and accompanied by a few other
cowboys the men prepared for tho fight.
The duel was an exciting one from the start.
Both were mounted, and, after a number
of ineffectual throws of the rope by each;
C&rraseo succeeded in catching the loop about
Bass's neck. The struggle of the latter to free
^limself causod his hor3e to become frightened
Kind he was thrown and.dragged by Carraseo
r some distance, until his neck was broken.
The people of the neighborhood soon learned
of the fatal affray and set out to capture
Carraseo, who had ridden off.
_Buffalo has captured the city of
Dresden Germany, with his Wild West
"how. The first performance was, held on
a Sutfday, and there was an immense crowd
in attendance. The anthusiasm was great,
particularly when Colonel Cody and hia I
cowboys did their sensational rifle-shooting
on horseback. *
FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS,
In the Senate.
124th D.w.?Messrs. Sherman and Hiscock
spoke in support of the Jones Silver
bill... .The House bill to establish a National
military park at the battlefield of Chickamauga
was placed on the calendar?Mr.
Evarts reported the Seuate bill, appropriating
$30,000 for a monument in W ashington
City to Captain John Ericsson, inventor of
the Monitor. Placed on the calendar....
Among the bills taken from the calendar and
passed were the Senate bill grantingpensions
of ?59 a month to the widow of Rear-Admiral
Edward Donaldson and to ths widow
of Commander Window, of the Kearsarge
....Mr. Blair introduced a bill to prohibit
the exportation of alcoholic liquors to Africa
and the Islands of the Pacific Ocean. Referred.
125th Dat.?The Senats ordered a new
conference on the Dependent Pension bill,
and Messrs. Davis, Sawyer and Blodgett
were appointed conferees on the part of the
Senate... .Mr. Blair introduced a Servico
and Dependent Pension bill....Mr. Plumb
spoke on the Silver bill and the tariff. Mr.
Hiscock also addressed the Senate on the
same questions.
tc 126th Day.?The Senate proceeded to the
consideration of bills on the calendar, and
the following, among others, were passed:
The Senate bill to pay to the representatives
of James and William Crooks, of Canada,
$o900 for the value of a vessel s?ized by a
United States vessel on Lake Ontario, on the
tho 5th of June. 1812, twelve days before tho
declaration of war. A provision in the bill
allowing interest was struck out;
the House bill appropriating $90,000 for deficiency
in public printing; the Seuate bill to
provide for the compulsory education of Indian
children; the House bill to prevent desertions
from the army, by withholding part
of the soldiers' monthly pay as a deposit, etc
.... Private pension bills oa the calendar were
then taken up and 120 were passed.
127th Da y.?Among the petitions pressnted
and referred was one from Nelson, Neb.,
praying (sarcastically) that all ex-soldiers
over 100 years old shall have pensions of
a month....Mr. Hoar introduced a joint
resolution proposing a constitutional amendment
for the election of postmaster. Referred
Mr. Hiscock introduced, by request,
a bill to pension all officers of colored
troops who served in the late war at $S per
month Mr. Cockrell discussed the Silver
bill....Mr. Vest called up one of his meat
product bills; itwentover withoutaction....
The Senate Committee on Postoffices and
Post Roads reported favorably the bill to increase
the salary of the postmaster at
Augusta, Me., from $3000 to $3o00 a year.
123th Day.?Messrs. Teller and Call spoke
on the Silver bill; it was resolved to put the
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nve-miiiu1*2 ruiw uiiu euau. ... uxi . .LjiiuAu.uv*a
introduced a bill providing that all funds or
other property belonging to Mormons viall
be devoted to the benefit of public common
schools in Utah... .The conference report on
the bill to secure a site for tho city postoffica
of Washington was also presented and read.
The site selected by the benate is th9 one
fixed upon?the square on the south side of
Pennsylvania avenue, between Eleventh and
Twelfth streets. The cost of the site is not
to exceed $300,000. After considerable discussion
the conference report was agreed to
without division The conference report on
the bill for a public building at New London,
Conn., was presented and agreed to. It
limits the cost to $75,000.
12'Jth Day.?An amended draft of th3
nouse onvei oui was reporsea iroui me finance
Committee.. .Messrs. Eustis and Turpie
spoke on the Jones Silver bill?Adverse
reports were made on Mr. Stanford's bill for
Government loans onii?as of real estate, and
on the bill to abolish metal -saoney; and the
bills were indefinitely postponed.The following
were among the bills taken from the
calonaar and passed; Senate bill for a public " building
at Racine, Wis., cost not to exceed
$100,009; Senate bill to amend the Revised
Statutes so as to make the act of breaking
into a postoffice for the purpose of larceny
the crime of burglary, and to increass the
maximum of imprisonment from five to ten
years; House bill increasing from $150,000 to
$275,000 the limit of cost for the public building
at Duluth, Minn... .Tho Senate then proceeded
to the consideration of individual
ponsion bills on th9 calendar, and passed
seventy-fivo of them.
In the House.
134th Day.?The Pacific Railroads Conv
mit-tea vAnr.rfcnrl ? fnnrlintr hill Afp Mrv
Kinloy reported a resolution providing that
the House should proceed immediately to
the consideration of the Silver bill, and that
the consideration should continue until Saturday
at 3 p. h., when the previous question
should be considered as ordered. Adopted.
The measure was then discussed by Messrs.
McComas, Taylor, O'Donnell, Conger, Williams
and Lanham.
135th Day.?'The day and night sessions
were devoted to debate on the silver question.
Speeches were made by Messrs. Lind,
Lacey, Walker, Perkins, Kerr, Blouat, Dorsey,
Holman and Wickhara.
136th Day.?The entire day was devoted
to tha consideration of the Silver bill. Tba
bill was passed?yeas. 135; nays, 119.
137th Day.?Mr. Oates, of Alabama, reported
the bill to prohibit aliens from acnnirtnor
fifcla fn r\r Awniniy lanHc wit.hin fchft
UnitecfStates.... Mr. O'Neill reported favorable
the bill appropriating $50,000 for the
erection of a monument on the battlefield of
Tippecanoe, Ind., to commemorate the heroism
of the men who fought J?jLCl died there
under the leadership of General William
Henry Harrison....The rest of the session
was devoted to matters from the District of
Columbia.
138th Dat.?The conference report on the
bill appropriating $75,000 for the relief of
A. H. Emory was rejected?yeas, 82; nays,
93 The Postoffica Appropriation bill was
passed Mr. Milliken presented the conference
report on the bill to acquire a site for a
city postoffice building in Washington.
Agreed to The Speaker laid before the
House a Senate bill amendatory of the Internal
Revenue laws. Passed.... Some
hours were spent in the consideration of a
Senate bill for the relief of Hyland C. Kirk
and others, assignees of Addison C. Fletcher,
patentee of a canceling stamp. The bill was
SnallV "laid UDon the table.
The .Sundry Civil Appropriation
till was reported....Mr. Stewart presented
the conference "report on the Senate
A.nti-Trust bill The Pension bill agreed
upon iu Conference Committee was passed?
ta 56.3t~^Tho Sjiiftker auhou^T^ftq Appointment
of Mr. Mais, Zt Tc?f.5,
ber of the Committee on Rufes, arid oi Mr.
Turner, of Georgia, as a member of the Committed
on Ways and Means, to fill vacancies
occasioned by tho resignation of Mr. Carlisle.
of Kentucky. at?
FORTY PEOPLE BURNED.
18,000 Made Homeless by a Fire in a
Ural Mountain Village.
Reports have been received at St. Petersburg,
Russia, of disastrous conflagrations
and great loss of life and property in tho
n. TT?1 \r rru-.
mining districts ui ua uiai juuuuwuiis. j. uj
iron works at Ufallisk and Newianks,a thousand
dwelling houses, four school hcu7es,
three churches, ten hospitals and the magazines
were completely destroyed. Forty persons
were burned to death and 18,000 were
unado homeless by the destruction of the
towns.'
NEWSY GLEANINGS.
California imports all its oysters.
Salt manufacturers are combining. \
Canada is considering penny postage.
The Entrlish Derbv was won bv Sainfoin
Horse-flesh is sold at 132 shops in Paris.
Mount Etna is in a violent state of activity.
Crop prospects in Europe continue favorable.
Connecticut fruit this year will be plentiful.
The apple troe worm has begun operations.
Winter wheat in the West is in poor condition.
T.iere are 10,000 flour mills in the United
States.
This year is destined to be a great one in
mining.
A water famino is threatened in Now
York city.
The planting of cotton was late, except in
th9 Carolinas.
The thefts of valuable dogs in England are
on the increase.
New York pays $1520,000 a mouth to keep
her streets clean.
A shall green bug is attacking the rye
fields in Pennsylvania. _ _
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FLOODS IN CANADA.
Buildings and Bridges Swept
Away in Many Towns.
Washouts Cause Great Damage
to the Railroads,
A dispatch from Barrie, Ontario, Canada,
says: The most disastrous flood that over
visited this town has just occurred in consequence
of a two days' heavv raia. The main
drain caved in and was consequently of no use
in carrying away the tremendous flow that
came down from the hills along tho
roads lifco immense rivers. All the
streets in the central portion of
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tno town were uouipioiciv
Tha water was fully two feet deep and
many stores were flooded. Tho streets in the
vicinity of Five Points are washed away to
a depth of from six toeight feet. The chasm
at present is fully fifty feet wide. The vast
body of water which rushed down carried
everything in its path to the bay. Tho railway
track is washed away and traffic Is
blocked. A number of freight cars were
washed into the bay. Tho rainfall was phenomenal.
The loss to the town was estimated
at about ?50,000.
The most disastrous freshet ever known in
Canada occurred at Green wood, Canada. For
two nights terrific thunderstorms raged and
the waters were high. The climax was
reached when four small dams north of that
place gave way. Roads were submerged,
cellars flooded, bridges carried away and
telegraph wires broken. Timber and trees
are floating in all directions. A number of
cattle and horses were also carried away.
A part of an embankment about 150 feet
long and 50 feet deep on the main line of the
Grand Trunk Railroad between Komoka and
London, in the Province of Ontario, Canada,
gave way. The accident was caused by the
recent heavy rains. Through trains were run
around by St. Thomas without much delay
It was expected that the break would be repaired
in three days. It was discovered by
the section men in time to prevent an acci
dent.
In consequence of heavy rain and the
sweeping away of two large mill dams the
village of Schomberg, Canada, sustained
heavy losses. Business houses and private
dwellings wero swept away by the flood, and
many persons were left homeless and in destitute
circumstances. The total loss was estimated
at $15,000 or mora.
A portion of the Canadian Pacific Railway
track, a number of bridges, several frame
structutes. trees, etc., were swept away by a
disastrous flood at Orangeville, Canada. The
heaviest losses were sustained by the break
ing of two mill dams and the almost total
wreck of shingle mills owned in Mount Forest
The loss could not be estimated.
A cloudburst occurred a few miles from
Brooklyn, Canada, which caused the creek
which runs through that village to assume
the proportions of a mighty river A great
amount of property was destroyed, and a
number of buildings were carried away. Sis
bridges were also carried away, and roadi
were washed out in all directions.
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Over 100 leec 01 tne miuiuuu iun?nj
track was washed out at Port Hope, Canada,
by a flood at the Globe File Works, to the
depth of fifteen or twenty feet. About sixty
feet of the track was also washed out a short
distance north of the town, cutting off all traffic
in that direction. Six or seven bridges were
carried away in the township of Hope. Twc
large bridges were also carried away, and
most of the boat houses below the viaduct,
with all their contents, were swept into th?
lake. No lives were lost. The damage will
foot up 135, iXMJ.
In the vicinity of Bowmanville and around
Tyrone many bridges and manufacturing establishments
have been wrecked or carried
off bodily, and much live stock has be"83
drowned.
Two bad washouts occurred on the Canadian
Pacific Railway between Owen Sound,
Canada, and Orangeville, and traffic was
suspended for twenty-four hours.
Several mill dams north of Pickering,
Canada, were washed out, swelling the
river to a mighty torrent. Eight bridges
near there have bien swept away, some of
them large structures, and timbers and
fences were scattered in all direction's.
LATER NEWS.
Judge Wallace, of Syracuse, N. Y., va?
cited the writ of habeas corpus in the case
of William Kemmler, sentenced to die by
a /-\r T7- ^
AUll/jr 1U tuo AUUU1U JL.f ?WU.
By an explosion of natural gas in the cellar
of a dwelling-house at Allegheny City,
Penn., Mrs. Kipp, aged seventy years, and
her granddaughter, Lizzie, sixteen years,
were fatally burned.
Graduating exercises were held at Col
umbia College, New York city; Princeton,
N. j.; West Point (N. Y.) Military Academy
and Vassar, at Poughkeepsie, N. Y.
Edward F. Costello, a brakeman, instantly
killed his little son, nineteen months
old, at Palmer, Mass., while the child lay
asleep in its cradle.
Burglars entered W. D. Norton's jewelry
store, at Gloversville, N. Y., blew open the
safe, and stole about 830.000 of iewelrv.
A daughter of General Lyons, who was
killed at Wilson's Creek early in the Civil
War, has been found working as a cook in a
graders' camp at Rocky Mountain Lake, Col.
Widow Bartholomew, of Willoughby,
Ohio, has secured the support of all the prominent
men in the town to her candidacy for
Postmistress. This so angered some women
of the town that they stormed hsr shop with
rotten eggs.
It is reported that every gamb ling house
in Chicago has been closed.
Pottsboro, Texas, is in ashes. Thirteen
of the largest business houses in the town
were burglarized and then fired. . . 6282]
ThereJsa shortage o?$17,0CK) in the funds
of the Michigan ? tate Soldiers' Home.
W. W.jdiciffirsox, of Graat county, Ky.,
waTnominated by acclamation oh the 207tb
ballot for Congress to succeed John G. Carlisle.
The Canadian schooner North Star has
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DC 611 seized uu tut; uutibu ui n aauiugwu ?lta
smuggling Chinamen into the United States.
The Senate confirmed the nomination of
Thoma3 M. Newson, of Minnesota, to be
United States Consul to Malaga.
Chairman- Caxnon, from the Committee
on "Appropriations, submitted to the House
the Sundry Civil Appropriation bill, making
110 pages?tho largest appropriation bill yet
submitted. The bill recommends a total appropiation
of $27,849,513.
The strike of tho Bohemian coal miners
in the district of Pilsen has ended in the defeat
of the men owing to hunger. It lasted
twenty-four days.
Que ex Victoria's favorite lady in waiting,
the Marchioness of Ely, is dead.
Tf?e fropdom of the Citv of Edinburgh,
Scotland, was presented to Mr. Stanley.
The wedding of "William O'Brien, the well
icnown Irish leader and editor of tbo Freeman's
Journal, and Mile. Ra.Talovitch,
laughter of M. Raffalovitcb, a banker of
Paris, took place at the Brompton Oratory
in London, England.
The murder of three Christians, a man
woman and child, by Turks, and the wounding
of several other3 in Crete, has been reported
from Athens, Greece.
A farmer living near Cordova, Spain,
refused to grant permission to one of his servants
to visit a bull fight, whereupon the servant
murdered his master and four other
members of the family and flud.
It is reported that the Emperor of China
ias now under consideration a plan for a great
railway system for China to connect Pekin
with the capitals of all the provinces, - >
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THE NEWS EPITOMIZED,
Eastern and Middle States.
Jonx Harvey, agel twenty-five, gate
tender at a railroad crossing in Boston, Mass.,
was fatally hurt while rescuing a woman
who had started to cross the track in front of
a train running at high speed.
Abraham D. Rice, a well-known merchant
of Hainesburg, N. J., committed suicide
by shooting. The act was prompted by
financial difficulties and slow trade.
O.ve man was burned todjatli an l twelve
seriously injured by burning oil from an explosion
on board a German tank steamer in
the Delaware River, off Point Breeze, Penn.
The Republicans of the First District of
Maine renominated Speaker Thomas B. Reed
for Congress by acclamation.
Charles Leonard, Nelson Watt and
Charles Monroe, ages from eighteen to
twenty, were fishing in a boat on Boyden's
Lake, iu Perry, Me., when the boat upset.
Leonard and Watt were drowned, but Mon
roe swam nearly a mile to the shore.
Judge Beach, of New York city, rendered
a decision in tho famous Tilden will
case, holding that the trust was void and
illegal, and that the dead stateman's estate
should be distributed as if he had died intestate.
The heirs thus succeeded iu getting
tho $090,000 trust fund.
Richap.dsox Brothers' largo saw manufactory
at Newark, N. J., has been sold to a
syndicate for $500,000.
At Middlebury, Conn.. Mrs. Harriet Smith
was drowned with her two sons while trying
to save the latter, who had capsized a raft in
a small pond.
Eleven* firemen wore burned, probably
fatally, by an explosion of gasoline at the
storage house of the Penn Globe and Gaslight
Company, in Philadelphia, Ponn.
TnE postoffice at Goff, Penn.. was struck
by lightning and demolished, and Postmaster
Henry was seriously Injured.
Mrs. Susan Net, of Boston, Mass.. drank
by mistake a glass of lemonade in which she
had put strychnine with the intention of
giving it to her husband. She died a few
hours later.
Baccalaureate sermons were preached
at Princeton, Vassar and Elmira Female
Colleges, Columbia and the University ot
the City of New York.
Rev. Dr. James Clements Moffatt,
Emeritus Professor of Church History, of
the Princeton Theological Seminary, died a
few days ago in his eightieth year.
Several persons were arrested in New
York city for refusing information to census
enumerators, and sixty warrants were issued.
Hvn7 RpmfAv's varietv theatre. in
Brooklyn, N. Y? was burned, causing a Joss
of $150,000.
The unveiling of the bronze statue of the
late Governor Richard D. Hubbard on the
Capitol grounds, at Harttord, Conn, was
very largely attended.
Bank Wrecker George H. Pell was
sentenced in New York city to seven years
and six months in State Prison by Recorder
Smyth, and was immediately taken to Sing
Sing.
Fire destroyed the business part of the
borough of Colchester, Conn., causing a loss
of about ?S0.000.
All the cadets of the first and second
classes at West Point (N. Y.) Military Academy
passed their examination safely.
Edward J. Ryan, the present chief clerk
of the First Railway Mail Division, at Boston,
Mass., has been appointed Superintendent
of the First Division, vica W. H. Bigelow,
deceased.
Nellie Docghertt, aged eleven years,
daughter of Patrick Dougherty, was fatally
burned in a fit of anger at Hazleton, Penn.,
by her brother, who is about a year younger.
Three French boys, aged six. eight and
sixteen, were drowned in the river at Bidde
1.UIU, J1C., uaiuiu6.
? _South and West.
A total. ofTKtgen deaths was reported as
the result of the stdftU4*t Brads haw, NebA
fierce sand storm ra?wUn vicinity
of Carman, 111., doing much dftaago to fertile
fields. People were driven tio""'vfllsi?
bouses.
The thermometer registered over ninety
decrees at Cleveland, Ohio, and Joseph Belofli
and Joseph Serick, two laborers, and an
unknown man were sunstruck. All died
shortly after being removed to the hospital.
Zacx Hundley, Chairman of the Stata
Democratic Central Committee, of South
Dakota, and editor of the Huron Herald,
was murdered by his son Fred during a dispute
about putting down a carpet.
During a fight in Harlan County, Ky.,
between the notorious Turner gan<* and a
Sheriff's posse, two of the gang, Jim Raynor
and Ed. Pine, were instantly killed and
Bob Stapleton of the po3se was slightly
wounded.
The Tennessee Prohibitionists have nominated
Rev. D. C. Kelly, of the Methodist
Episcopal Church South, for Governor.
Thi house of a colored man on a farm near
Williamston, N. C , was struck by lightning
and burned. In the house were five colored people.
Two ran out and escaped; the others, a
girl nearly grown and two small children,
were killed and their bodies consumed in the
burning building.
Tbr United States steamer Rush has saile.l
for BehringSea in search of illegal sealers.
Rear Admiral Gherardi and twentyeight
officers of the North Atlantic squadron
were entertained at Charleston, S. C., by the
City Council and Chamber of Commerce.
Many speeches were made.
Pellio, an Umatilla Indian,was hanged
at Portland, Oregon, by the United States
authorities for tne murder of an Indian
woman on the Umatilla reservation about a
year ago.
Lightning struck the Pioneer Coal Company's
barns at Charleston, W. Va., killing
Tom Hicks, stable boss; Sumner Stephenson,
a colored boy, and partially paralyzing
William Dills, the company's store superintendent,
and Dick Alexander, a boy.
Pat Croaks's stable, at Anderson, Ind.,
was destroyed by fire and his ten-year-old
son was burned to a crisp, and his uncle was
fatally burned.
There was a $100,000 wreck on the Des
Moines Union Railway track, due to an otherwise
harmless collision of Wabash and
Chicago, St. PauTand Kansas City passsngers
traiq^..
Thomas Williamson, under arrest at
Sedalia, Mo., asOjv^dejir,'has..confess*!
that he killed Jeffei?6fc and ^harlelMoofe"
father and son, with an ax, "and buried their
bodies afterward to carry out his story that
th&yliad gone away visiting. Ha is also accS^ed
of poisoning his wife and committing
other murders."
The sawmill and sash and door factory of
the Zacto Manufacturing Company at
Bucoda, Washington, were totally destroyed
by fire, together with 3,000,000 feet of
dressed lumber; loss 5133,000.
Great numbers of cattle have died from
starvation on the Southwestern ranges.
An unknown colored man assaulted a white
widow woman at Montovallo, Ala. He was
immediately lynch :d.
kiotous strikers prevented the running of
Btreet cars in Columbus, Ohio.
William Boyet, a'farmer, was killed in
Orangeburg, S. C., by W. J. Bozard, one of
Kia fnnnnfc RATTdf. icnc corflnfv vpflfkc nlH
and his siayor twenty-three. 'They quarrelled
about some farm work.
Mayor Davidson, of Baltimore, Md., bos
signed the ordinance authorizing the sale of
the 32,509 shares of Ealtimore and Ohio stock
now owned by the city to Mr. Bacon, representing
a syndicate, at a price not bslow par.
Simon* Per.man and Timothy Lynch wero
crushed to death by the collapse of a grain
bin in Harvey & Co.'s elevator in Chicago,
111.
The 132 miles of track, 2310 mules, sixty
buildings, 100 pieces of real estate and various
other street railway property in Louwvillo,
Ky., have beeu sold to Philadelphia capitalists
for ?3,900,000.
Two small boys named Hanson and Lundell
ran under a heavily-loaded lumber wagon
at Sioux Falls, South Dakota, supposably to
get a ride. Young Hanson had his head
crushed, while tho wheels passed over Lundell's
cnest, and both soon died in great
agony.The
mistake of a train despatcher caused
a collision near. Hannibal, Mo., in which
Fireman Arthur Taylor and,Berry Nelson
were scaiaea to aeaw. Three other men
were injured.
Maggie Baker, aged ten, Lolo, Alfred
and Charles Selo, aged respectively nine,
seven and three years, were drowned at
Rapids City, 111. They were boating and
the boat capsized.
A funnel shaped cloud passed through
the village of Channalion, III., at 9 o'clock
at night, doing immense damage, and killing
and injuring, it was understood, quite a
number of people.
Washington.
Colonel A. D. Baird has been nominated
by President Harrison as Postmaster
of Brooklyn, N. Y.
Tnfi Secretary of State has received a despatch
from the United States Legation at
Rio Janeiro, Brazil, announcing that the
Cabinet has passed a resolution enthusiastically
approving the action of the International
American Conference in recommending
arbitration in all questions of differences
between the several Governments of
America.
Henry L. Vilas, of New York, for several
years past Secretary of Legation at
Buenos Ayres, Argentine Confederation, has
tendered his resignation to the State Department.
The President, Mrs. Harrison and Mrs.
Dimmick left "Washington on the United
States steamer Dispatch for a short season
of recreation on the Potomac River and
Chesapeake Bay.
The President sent to the Senate the following
nominations: United States consulsThomas
M. Newson, of Minnssota, at Malaga;
William A. Rublee, of Wisconsin,
Prague. G eorge L. Wellington, to be Assistant
United States Treasurer at Baltimore;
Frank C. Partridge, of Vermont, Examiner
of Claims, State Department, to succeed
Walker Blaine, deceased; Asbury B. Conoway,
of Wyoming, Associate Justice Supreme
Court, Wyoming; Lilsston B. Bartlett,
Probate Judge of Grand County, Utah.
Mr. Frank C. Partrid32, who succeeds
Mr. Walker Blaine 03 Solicitor of the Stata
Department, is the private secretary of Sectary
Proctor. He is a native of Vermont.
The President and Mrs. Harrison spsnt
Sunday down the Potomac on the United
States ship Despatch, with Benjamin and
Mary McKee and Mrs. Dimmick.
The President and family returned to
Washington on the United States steamer
Despatch from Fortress Monroe, Va.
James J. Brooks, ex-chief of the Secret
Service Division of the Treasury Department,
has been placed in charge of the division,
in place of Acting Chief Cowie.
Thz Secretary of the Interior has rendered
an important decision affirming the legality
of the President's action In issuing, May 3,
1870, a proclamation offering certain lands
in New Mexico for sale at public auction.
The Postofflce Department ha3 offered a
reward of $1000 for the arrest and conviction
of the parties who robbed the registered mail
pouches when they held up a train in South
Dakota a few days ago.
The Senat8 Republican caucus nominated
E. F. Valentine, of Nebraska, for Sergeantat-Arms
of the Senate.
Secretary Blaine transmitted to Congress
the official report of General W. B.
Franklin, United* States CommissionerGeneral
to the Paris (France) Exposition.
m r?? A 1 1
ihe xresmeai/ aas ujjjjiuvcu i<uc uiumms
Administration bill.
The Government crop report for May
made the condition of winter wheat 78.1,
with a decrease of 1,750,000 acres.
Bids for three new naval vessels, to cost
more than ?5,000,000 in all, were opened at
tho Navy Department. The award will b9
made in three weeks.
Foreign.
Cholera is rife at Desireh, on the Tigris
in Asiatic Turkey. A sanitary cordon has
been placed around tho town.
La Grand Chartreuse, the famous old
monastery in the Department of Issre,
France, has been much damaged by the explosion
of a quantity of dynamite. The dastardly
outrage was the work of design.
The German War Minister has made further
demands of money for military purposes.
The Duko of Orleans, racantly raleasad
from imprisonmant in France, landed at
Dover, in"England, where he was mot by his
father.
Another conflict has taken plao3 at Pris
tin a, iiiaceuuxiia, uci?wl*cu oci viaus ?uu xi- -mufcs.
Forty Servians were killed and 200
were nl*4e.prisoners by the Arnauts.
Four hundSSSnhouses were destroyed by
fire in the town of' J)oksyce, near Warsaw,
Poland. Ten persons wDfa burned to death.
The damage to prop?rty isTmtSSfi^e.
President Carxot, of Franc^has
granted pardons to seventy-two workitrg-men
who were convicted and sent to prison
for offenses in connection with strikes. He
refused pardons to twenty-four.
Disorder has broken out among the
Somali tribes, in Zanzibar, Africa, and there
has been fighting and looting at Meurkaand
and Kismayu. The Sultan has sent reinforcements.
The great triba of Yaos, at
Kilwa, has declared hostility to all Europeans.
The City of Rome, Anchor line, ran upon
Fastnet Rock, on the coast of Ireland,
in a fog, and damaged her prow severely;
no passengers were injured, and the vessel
proceeded to Liverpool.
The Crown Prince of Italy arrived in Berlin
on a visit.
General P. J. Chamorro, ex-President
of Nicaragua, is dead.
The crops in the northern part of Germany
are being rapidly destroyed by insects
which infest them in swarm3, devouring
everything in the way of vegetation in their
path.
Major Wissmann, Imperial German Commissioner
to East Africa, arrived at Suez,
Egypt, from Atrica on hi# way to Berlin.
** a- at.? a. t3 t> 1.t j_ jl 1 1
no reports mat jluuu jrasuu wueu ae suirvw
for the interior o? Africa was enjoying fine
health.
Two men attempted to row a boat across
the river above Grand Falls. New Brunswick,
but they wore drawn into the swift
rush of water and swept over the falls tc
death.
Herr Wendell Malchoff, a member ot
the Reichstag and of the Prussian Diet, expired
in a fit at Berlin, while dining witb
Minister von Boetticher.
Mr. Tully, an Irish editor, wa3 sent to
Sri son for three months for violating the
'rimes Act.
The British bark Sinapore went ashore at
Cape Corrientes; the Captain and five of th9
crew were lost.
Prince Bismarck, in an interview, attributed
disaffection in Germany andj Russi
a^toovereducation.
Jose astioueta has been appointed Minister
of Justice of Argentine. The ministerial
crisis has ended._
John' HawardToTGorrie, Canada, end
William Whally, of Cohoes, N. Y., were
drowned at Winnipeg, Manitoba, by the
capsizing of their boat in tho rapids of the
Winnipeg River. . ... j**1""
DEAD JOCKEYS AND3ACEKS,
A Telegrapher's Blu:i<ler Causes a
Terrible Accident.
A collision between two freight trains occurred
at twenty-five minutes pist one
o'clock in the morning on tlu Wabash Railroad
between Warren ton, Mo., and Treusdal<\
located one mile east of t'.iere.
Eight men were killed and eight were sv
riousiy ami a numoer 01 outers s.yuujf
injured. The names of the dead are as follows:
Samuel Divis, jockey, Lexington, K_v.:
Morris Green, colored, Frankfort, Ky.;
Frank Kelley, Chicago: James Kelley, Chicago;
Frank Norton, New York; 15:1. Simmons,
hostler, Lexington; Henry Stone,
trainer, Harrodshtirz, Ky.; William H.
Thomas, Cynthiana, Ky.
In addition to those seriously injured,
whose names follow, a number of others wero
hurt:
L>wis Augustus (colored), Harrcisburg,
Ky., left thigh broken; Lee Brown, Louisville,
arm broken; George Hurley {colored),
Cynthiana, Ky.. ar:n and leg broken; Merritt
Johnson (colored) St. Louis, arm broken:
J. E. Norton, brakoman, severely bruised;
Lee Farsoiis, fireman, collar bone broken:
William Taylor (colored), trainer, Covington,
Ky., arm broken; Lewis Thompson
(colored). Harrodsburg, Ky.. foot fractured.
Fourteen others suffered slighter injuries.
Both engines and a number of cars wero
demolished. The mistake of a telegraph operator
caused the disaster. In sendiug out
the running time of a train ho made amistake
of forty-five minutes by sendiug fifty
minutes wlian ho meant live miaute.3.
One of the trains was loaded with raco
horses shipped from Latonia, Ky., to Kansas
City. The other carried ordinary freight.
Eight valuable race horsesjvere killed.
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A CYCLONE'S PATE
Death and Destruction Mart
the Monster's Course.
Buildings Demolished, Trees Toru
Up and Stock Killed,
A dispatch from BloomingtoD, III., says:
A cyclone swept De Witt County between 11
o'clock and noon.
A school-house near Birbeck, ID., was demolished
while school was in session. Five
children wero injured, of whom it is feoied
two will die.
At Wapella, 111., tho Illinois Central depot
and the Methodist Church wer9 wrecked. A
man named House, Jiving near that town,
was fatally hurt. Trees and telegraph poles
were smashed in all directions. Tho barn on
Mrs. Abbott's farm near Wanella was demolished
and three horses killed.
Considerable damage was done atTTaynesville
and!Clinton, in Illinois. The storm
moved northwest to southeast in a pathway
about half a mile wide.
The storm swept over the southern limits
of Channahon, 111., sbakine everv buildinc
in the village and moving many from their
foundations, leveling trees and outhouses
and making havoc generally. The cyclone
was above tho town, but dipped just
enough to tear away a fart of John
Drew's residence without injury to any
one of the family and catch ins: up
David Drew's barn and horses, three in number
and blowing them forty rods away, making
a complete wreck of the barn and killing
the horses. The lightning and thunder were
terrific and the people were crazy with fright.
A bolt struck the house, tearing it almost to
pieces and shocking two of the occupants.
One of the daughters. Mrs. Ann Biffins, was
sitting in the doorwayt while Ella, another
daughter, was sewing in the room inside. A
bolt passed over tho head of the girl sitting
in the doorway and struck Ella, completely
paralyzing her. Many horses and cattle
were killed and the damage to houses in the
country and town will amount to thousands
of dollars.
Two thousand people were in a tent just
south of Jacksonville, 111;, listening to a concert,
when a storm suddenly sprang up and
the tent blew over on the crowd.
A scene of mad confusioi. ensued, the pole3
and heavy canvas crushing many to tho
ground. Quite a number of persons were
injured,, the most seriously being Mrs. W.
H. Musgrave, wife of the pastor of Grace
Methodist Episcopal Church, hurt about the
spine, mid M.iss Aldorson, of Chapin, skull
fractured.
A severe hail and wind storm passed over
the entire Cumberland Valley of Pennsylvania,
doing considerable damage to the
growing crops. Hail fell in large quantities.
From the reports received from the surrounding
country tho damage to property
was heavy.
A cyclone which developed north of Milton,
111., from a thunder storm destroyed
everything in its path, which was fifty yards
wide and two miles long. One dwelling,
several barns and sheds, many trees and
much fencing were prostrated. The family
was absent from the dwelling at tho time,
and the only casualty reported is the breaking
of a girl's arm.
A terrible cyclone passed over Southern
Iowa destroying much propertv. It struck
the Fair grounds at Wapello and reduced the
exhibition halls to kindling wood. It then
entered the city, where it literally tore to
pieces the residences of Mrs. R. Biggs, S.
Bryant and O. W. Ives. All the inmates
were seriously injured, though not fatally.
Many other buildings, including various
outhouses, were dismantled. The old hydraulic
mill was destroyed. The storm
lasted about ten minutes.
A storm almost devastated the town of
Elrawood, Ohio. A number of houses were
demolished and one life was known to have
been lost. Elrawood is situated on the
Cathage Pike, about five miles from Cincinnati.
The houses are comparatively new
and occupied by persons of moderate means.
The storm struck the village shortly after
" ' 1 - entifhtraef
rive O CiOCK, CJIlimg uuui nun cuuuu.rucv.
A few moments before it burst a
calm seemed to settle over the town and
the heat became oppressive. Suddenly
there was a low, rumbling noise and vivid
flashes of lightning. Tho gale then swept
down and cleared a path through the entire
town. Houses were unroofed, chimneys
tjlown down, windows broken and outhouses
deifiolished.
Mis3%Lilli? Kendley, the operator at the
Boc Line^4epot. had a thrilling experience.
She was when the storm came
up. Suddenly the^-Station was shaken
to the foundation, ancfv^iss Kendley
sprang to the door. 'ount^
door obstructed, and fearing evef?y>^??e^M
that the building would tumble over sSB^^H
from a window. In order to keep from*t^^^|
blown away she was compelled to lio
ground; Investigation disclosed that
belonging to one of the residents ha^H^B
blown against the station.
Mr. Joseph Cook and his wife and
were at home when the storm came^^HS
The house began to rock, and Cook
to his wifo to save herself and^^^B
child. She ran out with the
in her arms and bad barely reached the^^v
air when the house collapsed. Cook^Bs
buried in the ruins. A number of coBy
buildings were destroyed. M
MASSACKED BY CHEYENNES.
Engineer Crittenden and Three of His
Men Killed by Drunken Indians.
The massacre by a band of renegade
Cheyenne Indians of Chief Engineer Willam
L. Crittenden, in charge of the Third
Division of the Govern ment Survey in Wyoming,
together with three of his men. is reported.
The terrible butchery occurred in
the Upper Green River country.
The crime was committed by a band of
eleven Cheyennes while under the influence
of liquor, furnished them by ranchmen who
had recently moved into the country.
The Indians rode into the surveying camp
in the morning, but nothing was thought of
such a common occurrence and they were
given a kindly welcome. It was soon discovered,
however, that they were intoxicated
and disposed to be ugly. They demanded
liquor of the surveyors, which was of
course refused.
They became very impudentand demanded
provisions which was also refused. They
began to make threats and were ordered |
from the camp. A quarrel then ensued, I
when the Indians suddenly attacked the I
surveying party with their knives and guns.
Tb.g attach wr.s so sudden that the men were
nearly all massa<?fed7
When the Indians finally desisted and left
the camp, thinking that they had killed all
the whites, it was found that Chief Engineer
Crittenden and Chain Bearers E. W. Timberlake,
George Woods and Heury Ober
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UJCjrci Tictvuwivu.
Assistant Engineer Jesse Lee wa3 also left
tor dead, but he recovered sufficiently to
drag himself to the nearest ranch, whence assistance
was sent, but too late.
Before leaving the Indians rifled the camp
and then escaped to the mountains. A puriiiinrr
nar^v was at once oreanized. and the
dMl,,.b -j ?=?
renegades were cauzht and put under guard.
Engineer Crittenden was a native of Paris,
Ky., where his family now reside. He was
about forty-five years of age and was considered
one of tae most talente 1 an i promising
engineers in the whole Governuipat
corps.
FIVE MEN KILLED.
A Train Leaves the Track and Topples
Over on a Section Gang.
The Northwestern passenger train from
Freeport, 111., which reaches Chicago at
o'clock, jumped the track two miles west of
Rockford, 111., oa account of a broken wheel.
A gang of section men were working about
two hundred feet from the point where tho
engine left the rails, and before they could
get away the train had ruu them down aud
toppled over on them.
The entire train was wrecked, and tho
engineer and four of the section men were,
killed outright. The fireman, two station
men, and some of the passengers were injured.
The killed are: E 3 ward Blaisdell, of Freeport,
who had bean engineer on this division
for over thirty-five years; August Johnson,
of Winnebago; Emd Anderson, of Winnebago
John Gustafson, of Pecatonia, aud
John T. Drymer, of Pecatonia.
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WOEDS OF WISDOM.
Guilt is always cowardly. ;
Actions are ideas in motion.
The man who does nothing ia nothings
A polished rascal is all the more a rascal.
"What a man is, depends upon what h<r
loves.
If the heart is pure ihc life will be all
right.
Great haste can never overtake a lost
opportunity.
The best soldier is the one who obeys
orders the best.
The shortest cut to wealth is through
the lane of contentment.
Some men, during their lives, provide
for everything but death. ^
The grandest piano ever mado had to?
be tuned by a tuning fork.
The way to perform a great work is to
do a little toward it every day.
No man is in a condition to enjoy
riches until he can be happy without
Statuc3 are moulded with little
touches. Characters are formed in the
same way.
When all men become loveable,all will
be loved, and will be loveable when they
love all others.
"When truth goes out to battle it never
returns bootless. It is only falsehood'
that is overcome.
A moment is all the time it takes to die.
From life to death is measured by two
ticks of the clock.
The poorest soul on earth is the man
who has no time or inclination to do anything
but make money. ,
A mule will follow a bunch of hay all
day, but he hates to be driven to pasture.
There is a crood deal of mule in
man.
You can never go back to where you
were this morning. The wheels of time1
revolve only in one direction. They never
turn backward.?Indianapolii Ram'i
Horn.
A Strange Inspiration.
A New Yorker, famous in the world
of letters, awoke one night recently from
a sound sleep. So far as he knew he had!
not been dreaming. He composed himself
again and was sinking into slumber
when there came into his mind,as though'
out of the darkness, two lines of verse,'
rhythmical but senseless They kept
him awake, and after a time two lines
more, equally smooth and absurd, presented
themselves to his consciousness, j
It seemed to him as though some one!
were dictating nonsensical doggerel to'
him from the shadows of the night. Unable
to sleep he arose and went downstairs
to his library. He sat quiet in the
darkness for a while, hoping that ho
would fall asleep in his chair. But a
second verse, perfect in form but absurd
in m no ntnrr nomo info Vlia m 1 n/1 anrl
ILL liibUUlU^j VUIUV JUIV UIO 4JLUUUj UUVk
then a third and fourth. Lighting a lamp,
he took up a pen and wrote down rapidly
the lines that had come to him. As ho
wrote, new verses fell from his pen, and #
when he had finished his task a poem of
eight stanzas lay before him. He was
surprised to find that, taken in their entirety,
Vie verses were far from meaningless.
He at once put the poem in an envelope
and directed it to a publishing firm.
Placing it among other letters to bo
mailed by a servant in the morning, he
returned to bed and at once fell asleep.
Upon awaking he was uncertain- .
whether ha had dreamed of writing a
poem or had merely transcribed one. As
his letters had been posted he had no
means of deciding the question. His un- .
^rtainty was pleasantly relieved the
^^fcfty^however, by the receipt of a
k13 p"hli^ftrg
^Vttcr Raising hispoem. Ttc peculi-j
Hey of this case which makes it very,
Hfercnt from the celebrated instance of j
Poleridge and his poem of "Kublaa;
Khan," lie3 in the fact that the author
had not been dreaming. He awoke from
what seemed to him a dead sleep, and I
found that his imagination had produced, {
without conscious effort on his part, a!
perfect poem.?New York World.
How to Take Care of a Watch.
The following may be taken as funda-1
mental maxims in the care of a watch:
1. Do not let a watch run down, bu^rl
wind it regularly at a fixed time each:
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2. Set your watch by and compare itwith
a reliable regulator.
3. Hold the watch still when winding:
it.
4. Never shake a watch violently.
5. Never meddle with the works.
6. Never carry your watch near an
electrical machine.
7. Do not let your watch run mora
than two years without cleaning.
8. Never put your watch into thai
hands of a poor workman. M
If your watch stops:
1. See whether it has run down, and
if it has wind and set it.
2. If it has not run down, see whether
the hands have caught. If they have,!
by using care you may free them. j
3. If neither of these, take the watch,
to a watch-maker.
If a watch is dropped into the water:
1. If into fresh water, open the cases
to the works and put the watch, opend^j
into a cup of kerosene or machine oil.
No time should be lost in doing thia.'1
Then, as soon as possible, take it to &
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WaLUU-UKlltci.
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Qnecr Nesting Tlaces.
A new use has been discovered for
electric light globes, says the Boston;
Advertiser. The spring birds have found
that they make excellent places in which
to build their nests, sheltered as is the
inner space from the winds and storms,'
and many a lively and lovely courtship
may be seen almost any day by glancing
at the top of the tall poles.
The new-comers perch upon the edges
of the globes and peep and twitter to one
another as they make their connubial arrangements.
Then they may be seen
bringing their twigs and bits of stranr
and twine preparatory to beginning
housekeeping. A day or two later ana
the domicile is all ready for occupancy.!
One may see the little nests from belo\?
through the glass. The dear little fel^
lo-.vs seem happy and coutented, although
they live in the full glare of light by day
aud by night. ''
A bird's nest one expects to find hidden
beneath a branch in some cool shady
spot and not in so conspicuous a place as
this. But if the birds are happy there it
is to be hoped that the faithfu! employes
of the electric light companies will no&
interfere with them. _3
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